The multi-touch SoundScape renderer

In this paper, we introduce a direct manipulation tabletop multi-touch user interface for spatial audio scenes. Although spatial audio rendering existed for several decades now, mass market applications have not been developed and the user interfaces still address a small group of expert users. We implemented an easy-to-use direct manipulation interface for multiple users, taking full advantage of the object-based audio rendering mode. Two versions of the user interface have been developed to explore variations in information architecture and will be evaluated in user tests. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.5.2 [User Interfaces]: Graphical User Interfaces; H.5.5 [Sound and Music Computing]: Systems

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AVI
• Authors: Katharina Bredies, Nick Alexander Mann, Jens Ahrens, Matthias Geier, Sascha Spors, Michael Nischt
• Keywords: AVI 2008, Multi-touch User Interface, Software Engineering, Spatial Audio, User Interfaces